Heat-retainer and drip-pan.



PATBNTED SEPT. 8, 1908 E. 0. REITER.

HEAT RETAINER AND DRIP PAN.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 3, 1907.

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EDWARD CHARLES REITER, OF ROGKVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

HEAT-RETAINEF AND DRIP-PAN.

Application filed October 3, 1907. Serial No. 395,734.

To all whom it may concern:

" Be it known that I, EDWARD CHARLES REITER, residing at Rockville, in the county of Tolland and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Im roved Heat-Retainer and Drip-Pan, of which the following is a specification. My invention seeks .to provide a simple,

economical and easily utihzed appliance for use in connection with oil or gas stoves or ranges, primarily having for its object the preventing of the free esca e of heat rom the concentrates the heat under a cooking utensil in such manner that the cooking is very clearly efiected and under a minimum expense of fuel.

Another object of my invention is to provide for catching the drippings from the cooking utensil whereby to keep the stove With the above and other objects in view, my invention consists in certain details of construction and peculiar arrangement of parts, all of which'will be first described in detail and then be specifically pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1, is a perspective view trates my inventlon as applied for use. Fig. 2, is aperspective view' of the main removable cover plate. Fig. 3, is a perspective view similar to Fig. 2, ofthe supplemental cover late, hereinafter referred to, a part being roken away. Fig. 4, is a transversesection of the main pan or supporting member, the same being also shown in perspective.

, In carrying out my invention, the sameembodies a mam or supporting member that the has the shape of an annular dished rim, inner portion of which is extendedvertically to form a collecting chamber a and whose up; 1 terminates ina horizontal top a. o the rim (1 whereby to support the ot or "other cooking utensil in a manner of the drawing. The member A has a handle a for conven- Specification of Letters Patent.

. a pendent flange 3 that illus- Patented Sept. 8, 1908.

So far as described, it will be readily apparent since the dished rim (1 is of a diameter greatly in excess of the utensil supporting ortion 1 that the drippings' that overflow rom the pot will drop down in the said dished rim and thereby not only keep the stove clean, but also prevent the greasy fluids from passing into the fire or flame of the heater.

When the body of the cooking utensil is of smaller diameter than the opening formed by portion 1 of the member A, a top or cover plate 2, that has apertures 2 is removably placed upon the said portion 1, said cover plate having a pendent flange 2 so as to snugly fit on the portion 1 and prevent the free escape of heat from the heat collecting chamber a. When it is desired to cook quickly, a supplemental cover plate 3 having and a single centrally displosed opening3 is used for concentrating the eat from the chamber a directly under the v center of the bottom of the utensil. For

cooking slowly, the cover plate 2Whi0h has 2 is used, since the said the small apertures heat over a ertures serve to, distribute the t e utensil bottom.-

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is J comprising a hollow dish shaped rim, whose 'inner wall extends vertically to form a heat device of the character described,

concentrating chamber and an apertured cover plate adaptedto be' remova 1y supported upon the said inner wall.

2. In a device of the character described,

the'combination with a hollow dish shaped annular rim, whose inner wall is vertically extended to form a heat concentrating chamher and an apertured cover plate having a,

pendent flange, said cover plate being adapted to removably fit upon t e said inner Wall,

substantially as shown and described.

EDWARD CHARLES REITER.

Witnesses:

Q L. T. TINGIER,

A. P. DICKINSON. 

